The Daily Hailey

I’m not going to lie. It was a super grumpy day for our entire household. I don’t want to write about super negative stuff on here, as I’ve always tried my best to focus on the positives, but the fact is there are days when we’re all just feeling under the weather in a few different ways.

Brady was working today, while keeping in touch with the dealership that had our van in its shop. He was in a decent mood, but there was a bit of figuring and researching that needed to be done that the dealership wasn’t doing, so it fell to Brady. And that was annoying. We came out of the service department with almost everything done. They didn’t get to the Bluetooth, so of course we have to try and get in there again. I have no idea how thats going to work, or when. We will be driving to and from Brandon next week and it would be lovely to have before then, but I don’t really see it happening. Also, they did an alignment but not a balance, so now the stupid thing wobbles. Grrr. An easy fix at Costco, but we only have so many days to bring it in, leave our family stranded somewhere, and get these things done. That is annoying.

Both kids were in a state today. Laela was just sort of serious, and only slept very shot amounts. She’s also very easily distracted, which is no fault of her own, but that of just being a baby. However, she would go forever between feedings and then be too distracted to eat. It resulted in me continually taking the bottle from her when she would try to move around, and she would cry and cry. It sucked. And Dekker whined all day. No exaggeration. He was never happy, but when I would ask him what he needed, or if I could help him, it seemed to upset him further. That got old fast. I informed him early in the day that, if he continued his whiny behavior all day, it would be clear to me that he was very tired, and he would go to bed early.

Those last two paragraphs are pretty much what made me grumpy, so I don’t really ned to expand on that. I had a bit of a break when the kids napped, and when I did dishes in the early evening.

Being that we are all grumpy, I went ahead with putting the kids to bed early. Dekker was in his room by 7:30 and Laela is having her nighttime bottle now. She won’t be down and asleep by 8:00pm or anything, but its already quieter, with one in bed and one with a bottle in her mouth.

And then food, and a tub. I’d love to say that we’re laying low tomorrow and having a lazy home day, but we’ll either be taking the van into the dealership and getting shuttled around, or we’ll go kill time at Costco while we wait for a balance. One of the two.

Sorry to be a super-downer. I’m just trying to be real with you guys. Today was a really big challenge. Yet before bed tonight, instead of Brady helping Dekker and prompting his prayers, Dekker prayed out loud all by himself, and thanked Jesus for  me three times. So I guess we came out of it on top, and still totally in love with each other. God is certainly good.